Pioneer Photo Albums 5PS-300 300-Pocket Sewn Leatherette Frame Cover Photo Album, Black

Love this photo album! Such good quality.

I do a lot of research before I buy anything on Amazon, and I researched the daylights out of photo albums. The Pioneer brand always came up as the best. I read all of the reviews on this one, and the only ones that worried me where the ones that talked about a terrible smell on the album. Some people said the smell was so bad they had to take it out of the house. That was not the case. There was no smell at all. Other reviewers said that the pockets ripped easily. I honestly can't see that happening unless you're very rough with it. Yes, it's thin material, but it's supposed to be. You just have to be careful. It's not a big deal. It looks so much like real leather, that my husband was concerned, because I got it for my son who is a vegan. It is not real leather. So that's good! It looks wonderful. The pictures that are vertical went in no problem, and the ones that go in horizontal I had to wiggle back and forth a little to get them to fit. This was not a problem at all and not unexpected. It just means it fits in there nicely without moving around. I think it's a great product and I would buy one again for myself.

I started putting my photo albums together since the whole quarantine and was looking for something that would of course up hold over the years. These seem perfect! I bought three. One for our Wedding/Honeymoon, Fishing/Hunting, and a Family album. Each page has two vertical slots and three horizontal slots which I really love. They are bound by screws so I could easily take a few pages out of one book and put into the other ones if need be. I wasn't necessarily delicate when putting the pictures into the slots as I wanted to see how well they held up or it the separators would peel up and not one messed up! I'm tempted to buy a couple more so when the time comes they'll all match :) The overall album seems durable, it was larger than I expected- which is a good thing. I'm completely happy with it.

This is my favorite photo album. I have almost 30 of them lol I’m old school and print all of my pictures & I prefer 5 to a page albums. The quality of the album is nice. Haven’t had any issues of the pages ripping or looking old after years of use. I keep going back each time I need a new one!

I bought this album because its pages have a black background and the 5-up design I wanted: 3 horizontal 4x6 pockets and 2 vertical 4x6 pockets on each side of the sleeve, for a total of 10 photos in one sleeve. There are a total of 30 sleeves, so the album capacity is 300 photos. The odd thing about the album (and the reason I took off one star) is that unlike most postbound albums, the front and back cover are GLUED to the spine cover. You can unscrew the posts and rearrange the sleeves which is a nice feature, but you can't add more pages since the spine cannot expand to accommodate the extras. For this reason, Pioneer does not sell official refills. If I find refill pages that match the sleeves of this album in size and hole placement, I might see if I can fit a few extra pages in. Depends how thick it gets when pictures are put in. The album does have a bit of a chemical smell, but that seems to be going away over the few days I've owned it. I plan to put both photos and Project Life cards in mine, and these fit fine. The pages load from the middle of the sleeve, and because of the black mesh background, they don't seem to slide around like in other albums I've tried. I will come back and post more after I have loaded up the album.

I have purchased 7 of these so far, and would absolutely purchase more. All have arrived in perfect condition without any damage. I used these to reorganize my photo collection as they were all in old books that were falling apart or wouldn't properly hold photos without them sliding everywhere.Pros:- Holds everything from old polaroid photos (although not ideally as you have to turn them sideways in the horizontal slots, but that wasn't a big issue for me) to 4x6- Very sturdy feel to both the cover and pages- Photos smaller than 4x6 are held in place without any adhesive of any kind and don't slide aroundCons:- Nowhere to write captions on the pages, but you can write them on the back of the photo so it's not a big deal- I didn't find these sooner, which would have prevented me from wasting my money on the countless inferior other photo albums I've tried before these

Absolutely love this photo album. The cover is quality looking and sturdy with room for plenty of photos. The slip in photo sheets are arranged so nicely- I really like how it allows you to put in horizontal and vertical photos. The dividers don’t go all the way across the photo spaces which leaves room to slide pictures into place without causing any rips - just be gentle! All photo albums are susceptible to tearing if you handle them without care. Overall I’m very happy with this purchase- I got it as a gift for my boyfriend so that we can make an album of all our travels!! Can’t wait to fill this with memories :)

I love this so much. I bought it for my dad for a birthday gift and now I want one of my own. I hate that most albums only let pictures go one way, so if you have pictures going both directions they look weird since you have to turn the album or your head. Or there are the albums that you open and the page is sticky but they don’t hold much on a page and you can’t ever get the cover to lay flat again. This is perfect and let me put in all of my pictures plus room for more in the future and no awkward head turning!!